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  • Should We Still Build Careers Around Deep Specialization?

    October 20, 2026 · 36 min

    For decades, career advice has been simple: specialize, build deep expertise, and become indispensable. But what happens when AI makes that expertise accessible to almost anyone? The value of knowing how to do something is shifting toward…

  • The Human-AI Handoff Is More Complicated Than Companies Think

    October 13, 2026 · 40 min

    Most enterprise AI strategies start with the same question: What can we automate? It's a reasonable question if your ambition is to make the existing workplace run faster. It's a much less useful one if you're trying to build something…

  • How Do You Prove AI ROI When The Return Is Only 1%?

    October 6, 2026 · 25 min

    Most companies are still figuring out what an AI agent should actually do. JLL has moved well past that question. With agents operating across facilities management, brand communications, and corporate functions, the company is learning…

  • Is AI Making Your Employees Worse At Thinking?

    September 29, 2026 · 25 min

    Recorded live at the AI4 conference in Las Vegas, this conversation puts David Rice and Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore—AI lead faculty and lecturer in strategic communication at Columbia University and co-author of The Power of the Learning…

  • Are Leaders Trading Future Capability For Short-Term AI Efficiency?

    September 22, 2026 · 36 min

    AI may be changing the work, but the bigger risk is what happens when organizations optimize so aggressively for today’s efficiency that they stop building tomorrow’s capability. Recorded live at the AI4 conference in Las Vegas, host David…

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  • How Do You Automate Recognition Without Making It Feel Automated?

    September 17, 2026 · 22 min

    AI in HR has a credibility problem: the technology is getting better at spotting patterns, summarizing data, and automating work, but none of that guarantees a better employee experience. In this conversation, Motivosity Chief Product…

  • What Happens When Employees Stop Speaking Up

    September 15, 2026 · 42 min

    When people stay quiet at work, organizations lose more than participation. They lose ideas, warnings, customer insight, process improvements, and market intelligence that never make it into the room. Seema Bhansali calls this the silence…

  • Why AI Transformation Starts With Organizational Clarity

    September 8, 2026 · 35 min

    AI transformation has a funny way of becoming an organizational X-ray. The companies getting real value from it aren’t necessarily the ones buying the most tools or burning the most tokens. They’re the ones that understand what they’re…

  • How to Turn Employee Engagement Into a Business Case

    September 1, 2026 · 40 min

    HR has been told for years to “speak the language of the business,” usually as code for proving it deserves to be in the room. But Dr. Shindale Seale makes a stronger case: this isn’t about self-defense. It’s about leadership. If…

  • HR Has the Skills to Lead the AI Era—But Will It?

    August 25, 2026 · 59 min

    There are two ways the AI transformation of work can go. We can hand the keys to the efficiency obsessives and spend the next decade trying to engineer the humanity out of organizations. Or HR can recognize that understanding motivation…

  • What AI Surveillance Can’t Tell You About Your Employees

    August 18, 2026 · 50 min

    Nobody sets out to build a workforce surveillance system. It usually arrives dressed up as optimization, productivity, wellness, or efficiency. But as AI makes it possible to monitor everything from keystrokes and mouse movements to…

  • Why The EU Pay Transparency Directive Is More Than A Compliance Exercise

    August 11, 2026 · 33 min

    The EU Pay Transparency Directive isn’t just another reporting requirement. As pay reporting expert Tom Heys puts it, it’s closer to the UK gender pay gap regime “on steroids”—combining organization-wide reporting with individual employee…

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About the show

The People Managing People podcast equips forward-thinking leaders to thrive in the AI era—reshaping teams, systems, and strategy without losing what makes work human. Hosted by David Rice, each episode brings real-world insights from innovators, executives, and people leaders on topics like AI in practice, people-first leadership, performance systems, and workplace culture.